Example sentences of "[noun] ' [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 2 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 3 | He was given six months ' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine . |
| 4 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 5 | The Prince and Princess attended the Parker-Bowles ' house-warming party when they moved from Bolehyde Manor to Middlewich House , twelve miles from Highgrove and Charles regularly saw Camilla when he went fox hunting . |
| 6 | She has always in her thoughts her parents ' mean condition and I shall do nothing for them , at least at present , because I will keep the girl humble . |
| 7 | I had to get my passport done , my parents ' written permission because I was only seventeen and I found myself in Paris two days later . |
| 8 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 9 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 10 | They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going . |
| 11 | Hamilton knew it would be foolish to abandon his predecessors ' successful formula but he was keen to tamper and experiment with fresh ideas . |
| 12 | It is quite obvious that they wished to their little beating hearts ' total desire that it was . |
| 13 | I reiterate that we should have a Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee and I am trying to relate the new clause to my believe that we should have an overall consultative committee . |
| 14 | Western Klick Photopoint should consolidate their lead in Division I of the Torrie Stockbrokers ' National League when they meet fourth-placed Grove at Stepps tomorrow , then face bottom club , Kirkcaldy , at McDiarmid Park , Perth , on Sunday . |
| 15 | This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important . |
| 16 | His catalogue of indiscretions really began in 1987 when he crossed swords with Kenny Dalglish over Jones ' alleged threat that he intended ‘ to rip off his ear and spit in the hole . ’ |
| 17 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 18 | Nearly all these refer to Wirral residents ' apparent belief that they are socially and economically superior to those across the River Mersey in Liverpool.Thus , on the Liverpool side , Wirral people are referred to as ‘ the stuck-up nobodies across the water ’ and worse . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's A Shame … ’ is the title track from the Lemonheads ' enthralling album and it 's beautiful . |
| 20 | I mean I do n't wan na make it sound like it 's , i i i it 's , it 's an impossible thing , but it 's very difficult at this stage to forecast , but James ' basic assertion that it is n't a very material number is correct . |
| 21 | When someone first joins an organisation , it 's much easier for them to ascertain their new colleagues ' overt status than it is to understand their active status . |